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Re: Sumner and Stillman Catalog

From: James Keeline <keeline~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:42:50 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Salvatore Muoio <smuoio~at~ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> As I am somewhat new to this forum and don't have the long perspective (and
> I wouldn't call myself a Verne scholar - just a reader and collector) I am
> curious why you would hold this opinion. I have studied financial markets,
> however, and have always experienced "price" to be set at the margin by a
> willing buyer and seller.
>
> Sal Muoio


A friend of mine sent me the catalog in question. I watch American Verne
editions on eBay from time to time and the prices in this catalog are several
times what people pay in that forum.

High end dealers like S&S don't expect to sell their books to ordinary people,
even enthusiastic Verne collectors. Instead, they hope to sell books to a
clientelle of lawyers and physicians and people who have more money than sense
to take the time to see what things really sell for.

Some of the books were very nice. However, it seems like they paid double the
rate of eBay prices and then tried to double that again for their markup. I'm
sure they'll sell some books but not to people on any sort of a book buying
budget.

James
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